Following the latest trends on the VPS market, we are now introducing an innovative virtualization technology onboard – Linux KVM, which is intended to replace the Virtuozzo VPS solution on our store.
Virtuozzo VPS plans are no longer available with our hosting packages.
What is Linux KVM?
The KVM virtualization technology provides a new perspective to virtualization, bringing it a step further.It offers the flexibility needed for building a custom hybrid platform where your resource-sensitive VPS machine can reside trouble-free.
The philosophy of KVM is ‘full virtualization at the hardware level’, which allows for maximum utilization of CPU resources.
Through emulation of actual physical devices, each VPS can get a dedicated virtual chunk of the server’s CPU and even have its very own OS running on it.
The KVM technology has also empowered us to increase disk and network I/O request processing speeds by means of VirtIO paravirtualization.
VirtIO is a virtualization standard for disk and network device drivers, which allows high performance to be achieved. VirtIO drivers are available by default with most standard Linux distributions.
If you are a FreeBSD or a Windows user, you should configure the drivers during the OS installation itself.
